Denzel Washington Quotes

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.

It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

If you don't love your fellow man, women, person, then you don't have anything. If you don't treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated that to me is the fundamental message.

Revenge is a meal best served cold.

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

I love research and being educated. It's a great job being able to step into all kinds of professions and into other people's shoes.

It's not easy for me to admit that I've been standing in the same place for 18 years.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

I even asked [Saniyya Sidney] why she wanted to be an actor and she said, "I'm serious about this. These other little kids they want to play, and I don't have time for that."

My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

Don't be afraid to fail big, to dream big.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

I've always felt protected. That's the God's honest truth.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

The lessons I learned in Sunday School have kept me on track

It's important for us to tell our stories.

In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

When people protest and are upset with a movie, it becomes a big hit. They hated Passion of The Christ, it worked out pretty well for the box office. So let's get that going.

When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.

I try to encourage actors to work harder off screen because that's where you find things.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

I just try to be honest and true to the character and play the part.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

Acting, it's not my life, my children and my family, that's life. I'll get up every morning, God willing, for that.

Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

The last few years I've been saying I was ready to quit. It wasn't that interesting to me. Now that I'm directing, it's all new again.

Raising the standard of the work, not complaining about somebody not voting.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child.

You have to grab moments when they happen. I like to improvise and ad lib.

Bad guys need love too.

The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

I'm a positive person, so I don't get bogged down with it. If you're expecting that, if you wall in that, if you practice that, then you'll attract what you fear.

As an actor, you're a color of paint on someone else's palette. But as a director, it's your canvas and you make the painting you want to make.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours.